5.5 Record keeping? Yaaaaawn...

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Finding partners and knowing as much as you can about their sites is great. But if you don't keep a record of all your partners, whether they're linking to you or refused to link, all the rest of link building may turn pointless.

Treat all info about your link partners like any other knowledge you have. If you don't put a note somewhere, chances are huge you'll forget things one day.

Step 8. Put the site into your record

Each partner is already recorded in LinkAssistant, and as long as you save your projects, you'll keep track of each and every website you ever contacted, all inside the program. What else is there to help you?

I recommend you to use Statuses. They let you mark each partner in a way that's most convenient to you. By default, LinkAssistant offers you just 7 main statuses (you'll see all of them in the screenshot).

Editing partner statuses

But you can create as many as you need and set them when you Edit link partners one by one, like below:

Setting a status for one partner

or when you make a multiple partners update:

Setting statuses for multiple partners

That's how you sort sites you've linked to and requested links from, mark who you've contacted and who you haven't yet, who agreed and who refused to link to you and so on.

And what do we do with partners who gave us a backlink?

When you get a reply from a partner telling you they've placed a link to you on their site, I'm sure they'll tell you the exact page where the link sits. You need to put the backlink page into your records. To do that, select the partner, click Edit and switch to the Backlink To You tab.

Recording URL of the backlink page

Why you need to record every page where your backlink stands, some ask. The answer's simple: you need to control them to make sure noone's trying to fool you.

Here's how it looks in LinkAssistant software:

Record of partners in LinkAssistant

Yep, life is life and someone may wish to have links from your site, without doing you the same favor.

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